The Issue: The city’s plan to sell the Robert Moses Playground to make room for new UN offices.

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Mayor Bloomberg’s plan to destroy what is possibly the city’s most bucolic place, Tudor City, may go through — with a possible taxpayer bill of hundreds of millions of dollars (“Paying the UN To Steal a NY Park,” Megan Clyne, PostOpinion, Sept. 22).

Does Bloomberg think that New York has too many parks and too much money or that the United Nations has too few offices to bash the United States and our allies?David Bergstein

Tudor City

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Clyne grasps the expansion for what it is — a land grab.

When a political entity takes land that belongs to another, it’s called colonialism. When the United Nations does it, it’s called “consolidation.”

The coming redevelopment of Midtown’s East Side will bring 8,000 new residents, just as the politicians give away a vital playground that the neighborhood desperately needs.

Edan Unterman

President

East Midtown

Coalition for

Sensible Development

Manhattan

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It’s about time someone stuck up for those of us who played on the Robert Moses field of dreams in the 1960s.

The STAGs of St. Agnes High School, which used to occupy a building on East 44th Street, spent many a fine afternoon playing intramural softball there.

Let’s hope the city pops one over the right- field fence and the deal to sell our field of memories is ruled an out.

Dennis Hawkins

Manhattan

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Clyne fails to mention what the city stands to gain.

The proposal would generate thousands of jobs at the UN construction site — a major boost for the city in this time of economic hardship.

And residents would get a greenway along the East River, which is why East Siders support the proposal.